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They threshed in a circle, keeping good time with their strokes, and laughing merrily while they flourished their flails,—they appeared a most joyous party,— “Ho! batteux, battons la gerbe, Compagnons, joyeusement.”
From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser
One evening," she relates, "we were at service in St. John's church, when all of a sudden I noticed on the horizon a gerbe of resplendent flames.
From Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 by Achilles Rose
The abortion of the rectrices in the gerbes, while these feathers are fairly developed in the divers, is another point that helps to separate the two Families.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Wherever the paddles play, there the sea foams up into yellow light and gerbes of amber-coloured fireballs, caught up by the wheels, and flung off in our track, to float past with incredible rapidity.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various
Cast-iron for gerbes will be preserved by the above method.
From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown
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